HIS CASH GETS STOLEN
edly headed the organisation was sentenced to 28 years in prison in 2001 in Ireland and served 17 years.
“Irish investigators linked his organisation to the murder of an Irish journalist.”
In June 2021 after Gilligan was released from prison on bail after his arrest, The Irish Daily Star tracked him down to his Spanish bolthole — where he scuttled away from us when he was confronted.
We approached him as he got out of a Black Nissan Micra driven by his son Darren — and told him we wanted to talk to him about the murder, for which he was prosecuted but acquitted.
Gilligan was entering the driveway of the villa when we caught up with him after a four-day surveillance operation in which we repeatedly photographed him enjoying his freedom on the Costa Blanca.
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We told him we were from The Irish Daily Star, and he simply said: “Pardon”, before Darren grabbed his arm and turned him away from us — as we asked him if he regretted the murder of Ms Guerin.
Gilligan kept walking with his head down as we asked him if he wanted to make any comment on the murder of Ms Guerin, who was gunned down while she was investigating a cannabis importation gang — and also prosecuting him for a brutal assault on her just a few months earlier.
He fled to Spain after he was shot in Clondalkin, west Dublin in March 2014 — months after his release from Portlaoise maximum security prison in October 2013.
He had served 17 years for cannabis importation offences connected to his gang, despite being acquitted of the murder of Ms Guerin, the crime reporter for The Sunday Independent.
But shortly after his release, the drugs cartel led by Daniel Kinahan tried to murder him in a pub in north Dublin but their hitman Trevor Byrne picked the wrong one.
Then in March 2014, the Kinahans did find him and shot him repeatedly
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